Are there gorillas in Egypt

Answer 1

Not any more! Prehistoric/predynastic Egypt had a savannah-like environment, and this is attested to by Saharan rock paintings in Egypt and other North African Saharan countries showing monkeys, giraffes, rhino's, lakes and rivers with crocodiles and fish and even people dancing in the rain and swimming. While the Sahara as we now know it was still somewhat more verdant than it is today during at least the first part of the Old Kingdom of Egypt (beginning approximately 3100 bce, ending about 2200 bce) it is unlikely that monkeys (and baboons, which were important to the cult of the god Thoth and which were probably bred in temple enclosures for that reason) were able to survive the drier conditions of Old Kingdom Egypt for very long. In fact, some archaeologists now argue that the Old Kingdom fell due to what is presumed to have been a very quick transitional climate catastrophe at the end of the Neolithic Wet Period which caused a shift in wind and weather patterns so extreme that the Ethiopian monsoons responsible for the nile flood failed to occur for more than a generation and did not recover to previous levels for nearly 100 years. At any rate, despite their drier climate, the Egyptians seemed not to forget the primates they had once shared their country with, and imported both monkeys and baboons from various regions of southeastern Africa through their trading posts in Nubia (modern day Sudan). While monkeys, unlike baboons, were never representative of or associated with either God or King in ancient Egyptian mythology, they were often portrayed in art as pets, many times in anthropomorphic human roles and generally in a humorous manner. The most likely candidate for the Ancient Egyptian monkey, and the species they continued to import, is the verdant monkey. Mediterranean and Levant cultures that came into contact with ancient Egypt developed a demand for these monkeys as well, and through Egypt they were exported as both pets and curiosities as far away as Assyria and the Ionian islands, particularly ancient Thera (Santorini), where they appear in large numbers on wall paintings, climbing trees and swinging and seeming quite at home.

Answer 2

Not naturally, but there might be some in zoos.